The Portland daily press., 1887-07-04
THE STATE.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.

A big jam Of seven or eight million feet Of
logs still hangs ON the Aroosto0k Falls, and
unless there are very heavy rains, it will re-
main there all summer. The Dechaine
drive, of three and a half millions, is hung
up in Big Black River. about 60 miles above
Fort Kent. These logs are owned by Hay
ford 81 Stetson of Bangor.
Mr. John Watson of Houlton is building
new starch factory in Smyrna. Mr.. Ii. c.
Bradbury has charge of the work.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
On the town house of Avon are notices of
over thirty farms advertised for sale by the
tax collector, for taxes Of 1855.
Last Thursday night at Quimby Pond, five
miles from the village of Rangeley, Col.
John Il. Marble, proprietor of the Rangeley
Lake House, aud Capt. Robert Irvine of
Galveston, Texas, with Geo. Thrasher as
guide, caught sixty-four trout that weighed
forty pounds. The fishing was done with
rod and fly between the hours of eight in the
evening and twelve at midnight. 1t was a
bright moonlight evening.
On Friday Dr. G. f. Rowell of Wilton
caught touge in Wilson lake weighing six
teen pounds. He was hooked at o'clock in
the evening and fonght twelve hours before
he was landed.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The increase of salary of the Bar Harbor
postmaster from $500 to Sl700 year makes
an increase within two years of 500 and
shows how the business of the place is
growing
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Thursday June 3Oth, the machinery in
the railroad repair shops in Augusta shut
down permanently, as the entire business is
to be removed at once to the new works at
Waterville. The men, some thirty In num-
Der. nearly all ceased work and many Of
them will be transferred to Watervile. The
repair shop was built in 1864 and large
Of ol hn1 lota
that time which must be moved. The build
ing will be torn down as soon as possible
and the double track built from the old
round house to State House siding The
| paint shop, it is understood, will be em-
| ployed for a coal she'd
NJ. M. Stone, agent Of the cotton factory
| at Hall0well, has received word from the
| owner, Samuel X. Rayson, to have the ma
| chinery ready to start up at short notice, as
| he is in hopes that cotton will soon be down
| so that it will pay to run it.
| Owing to the exchange of bonds to secure
| circulation the Waterville banks are left
| with total circulation OF 100000, instead Of
| $36O.000 under the former requirements, re-
| ports the Waterville Sentinel.
Mary Simpion of Waterville hung herself
| last week. She leaves four children and a
husband.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Wiscasset post office having been reduced
| to the fourth class, Waldoboro has the only
third class post office in Lincoln county.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Burglars entered Dorman's blacksmith
shop at Buckfeld, Thursday, and took chisel
| and bit stock with which they entered the
| store OF Atwood, Spaulding Il Co., and tine
| post office. All they secured was few dol-
| lars in change from the post office, and were
| evidently disturbed at the store Of Atwood,
| Spaulding & Co. Matches were scattered
| aronnH fha cafa Enur m ctran0arS
were seen about the outskirts of the village
| in the evening.
| William Williamson, 1e1 years old, of
| Cethel, died last week.
| PENoBscoT COUNTY.
| III. Il. Stafford Post, G. A. r., of Dexter,
| are undertaking to build q soldiers monu-
| ment.
| Boston men have been in COrinna looking
| the ground over for new mill there. They
| are said to have been favOrably impressed
| with the chances.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Several towns in eastern Somerset and
Western Piscataquis counties will unite in a
| grand celebration at Athens. w. Il. Par
sons, Esq, has been invited to deliver the
Grafton and has consented to do so.
The rains of last week have given enough
| waterson the tributaries Of the upper kenne-
| bee to enable many more logs to be driven
Journal says that the drivers will get an
| additional five million from Dead river and
as many more from Long Pond rapids on
Moose river by the rain.
YORK COUNTY.
A Biddeford officer who is well acquainted
with all the schemes which rumsellers prae-
tice to evade the liquor law, gives it as hi:
opinion that on an average about twenty
jugs of liquor are daily received at the sta
ti0nS in Biddeford and SacO, in addition tC
the agency liquors and that which is SINUS &
gled in by saloon keepers.
The body of the little Griffin girl who wa:
drowned at West Buxton the 9th. was founC
on the bank of the river by Capt E. A. Tit
comb. Coroner Locke of Bar Mills was no
titled and removed the body to his undertak
ing room.